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April 10, 1989 To: Little Canada Planning Commissioners Little Canada City Council Members Re: Carl G. Swanson Addition - Little Canada Road Dear Commissioners and Council Members; We would like to address a couple issues with regard to the proposed development directly north of our neighborhood. The first and we feel most important issue is the "drainage" shown by an arrow pointing south on both proposals. We urge you to have an engineer with a good background in this matter to thoroughly research the impact additional run off of water will have on our street. We are aware that Roger Glanzer is no longer Public Works Director in our city. We would encourage you, however, to visit with Roger or someone from the Public Works Department to learn what kind of problems we have had with severe water problems in our street during rains. The home at 554 Schletty Drive (the "log" home) has had damage in the home caused by water coming in due to improper drainage down our street from Little Canada Road. You will recall that we have been in front of you before with concern about the south end of our street "dropping off ". The street was not engineered properly when our area was developed. The cul de sac on the end has the storm sewer on the east side of the cul de sac. However, when water runs down our street, it collects on the west side of the cul de sac and never makes it to the storm sewer. There has also been excessive flooding in the back yard of the property at 513 Schletty Dr. because, evidently, the drainage of the entire neighborhood was not addressed properly in the beginning. We encourage further residential development in our city as opposed to industrial or commercial development near existing residential neighborhoods. We urge you to have this new development conform to the standards all ready set by our neighborhood. We have included a list of our addresses and lot sizes. Please do not allow the neighborhood directly north of ours to have lots of mostly minimum lot sizes. If we recall correctly, the neighbors on County Rd. B -2 argued successfully when Ray Kroiss subdivided his property at Co. Rd. B -2 and Edgerton that they wanted the new lot sizes to conform to the existing lots in the neighborhood. We ask the same. While we may not be considered "big business" in Little Canada, our collective Real Estate Taxes paid by the 19 owners of property in "Schletty Woods" totals $41,658.32. We have all made a substantial investment in our homes. We hope that the new development will enhance our neighborhood and all of Little Canada. In summary, we encourage you to not recommend, nor give, preliminary plat approval to the Carl G. Swanson Addition until a thorough study of the drainage has been completed. We would request, if possible, that this study not be done by the same engineering firm that reviewed the drainage of our neighborhood when it was first developed. We also request that the lots conform to the lots in our neighborhood. Thank you for taking the time to consider our concerns. The Neighbors of Schletty Woods (see 2nd page for signatures) Page 11